People to Be Loved Quotes

“If the world out-loves the church, then we have implicitly nudged our children away from the loving arms of Christ.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“In any case, if we see the church as a singular entity—a bride and not a harem—then there might be some relevance for our discussion. Clearly, Jesus’ love toward the church is mirrored in a husband’s love for his wife, and the wife’s submission to her husband is mirrored in the church’s submission to Christ. Since Paul roots marital role distinctions in sexual distinctions, I’m not sure what this would look like in same-sex marriages. The relationship between Christ and the church requires a fundamental difference; a man marrying a man would seem to reflect the church marrying the church or Christ marrying Christ.13 The analogy demands some sort of difference, and it appears that Paul has sexual difference in mind.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“Shallow answers to complex questions are offensive to our God-given minds and they fail to shape our hearts into being more like Jesus’.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“...You can enter into a humanity-affirming relationship with gay and lesbian people. A relationship without footnotes. A loving friendship that doesn't begin with "where you stand" on the "issue" of homosexuality, since Jesus didn't take this approach. Take a stand, yes, but take a stand on love. That radical, counter-cultural grace that drew sinners and tax collectors to Jesus. Jesus actually did talk about that.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“Evangelical leaders need to stand for truth, and putting homophobia to death is part of standing for truth. Jesus is truth, and Jesus is not adultererphobic, tax-collectorphobic, centurionphobic, and he is certainly not homophobic.

Jesus does not have a prejudice against any human being, but if he did, it would be against judgmental, homophobic, religious people. We need to destroy homophobia.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“Take note, it wasn't Jesus's stance on extortion that led to Zacchaeus's repentance. It was Zacchaeus's encounter with the other-worldly love of Christ, love without footnotes, that pushed repentance out the other side, and Jesus never had to tell Zacchaeus "where he stood" on the "issue" of tax-collecting.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“Jesus's love comes without a background check.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“If the church is ever going to solve this "issue," it needs to stop seeing it as an "issue." Homosexuality is not an issue to be solved, it's about people that need to love and be loved.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

“If the gospel is not good news for gay people, then it is not good news.”
― Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue